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The constituent assembly approved an article giving citizens the right to form non-governmental associations and political parties by only notification. 
Dr. Yūnis Makhyūn, a member of the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said the committee on the society’s mainstays has reached final accordance over the drafting of Article 2, which reads, “The principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”.
Dr. 'Abd al-'Azīz Salmān, secretary general of the PEC (Presidential elections committee), stated that the PEC shall prepare a list of names of citizens, eligible to vote,  who did not cast their vote, and hand it to the general prosecution,
While Salafists in the constitution panel insist the new constitution must clearly indicate that the Islamic sharī’ah will be the main source of legislation, others adamantly insist that only the principles of the sharī’ah should be the main source of legislation. Liberal groups are of the view...
In its first meeting at the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the two-chamber parliament, the constitution-drafting panel elected unopposed on Monday (June 18) evening Counselor Husām al-Ghiryānī, the sole candidate for the post, as chairman of the constituent assembly. Ghiryānī criticized the...
People’s Assembly member Yāsir al-Qādī submitted a draft on the addition of some articles to the law on sanctity of houses of worship. “The proposal punishes with three years’ imprisonment and a fine of at least LE10,000 or each of them any person who carried weapons during demonstrations inside...
The Shūrá Council’s financial and economic affairs committee has endorsed the Islamic Research Academy’s rejection of the Finance Ministry's proposal for Islamic bonds. “We reject the bonds in terms of economy and in terms of Sharī’ah,” committee chairman Muhammad al-Fiqī said.
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